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[Kiwi Tart]

About a BILLION pens and pencils.
Pens that shimmer and glitter. Pens that smell and glow. Pens that erase, and pens that combine. Anime pen, Looney Tunes pens. Pens with caps, pins with double ends. Pens with pencils inside. Pen disguised as pencils. Pencils disguised as pens. Pens and pencils disguised as anything but a pen or pencil. Things that were not originally meant to be pens converted into pens. Pencil cases. Pen boxes. Plethoras of pens. A superabundance of pencils (though I must admit, the pens outnumber the pencils in the war of the stationary.) And the board markers! Oh the beloved, belittled, abhorred board markers! How they multiply, with their fat, stout bodies, hoarding all the space!

Yet when grading time comes around, I can't find a single red pen.

[proustme]

I vote that you need a pencil case like ALL Korean students. I never had a pencil case. I just dumped all my pens and pencils into my bookbag in school.

[Kiwi Tart]

ditto

[Arthur Dent]

Maybe your students hide them from you?

Actually, with a little work, most of your piece would make a good little kids story!

[Draz]

Use a sparkling green pen.

I always use blue for grading, and black for filling out paperwork. Am I doing it wrong?

[Khenan]

My experience is that teachers with lots of pens go out of their way to get lots of pens... if that's your thing, then go for it!

Myself, I have two black pens atm... one bic, and one a crappy no-name Korean pen. I might have one or two others dancing around somewhere.

[VanIslander]

Erasers!
I'm always in search of an eraser.
Didn't I buy a ton of erasers?
Where are all those erasers students left behind?
Why do erasers keep walking away?
I need an eraser.
That student needs an eraser again.
Can I borrow your eraser?

[nobbyken]

I like my combo pen, which I thought I would never use again after childhood.
Just click to change colour for underlining or adding notes.
Why carry four pens, get a combo-pen. They even do them here with ribbons so elementary students can choke each other.

[.38 Special]

When I tutored Composition at the university, I had one pen and one pen only for that task...


RED

It was intended to be intimidating and belittling. But I'm old fashioned. I am of the mind that making mistakes is shameful and the student should invest him/herself into preventing those mistakes again.

Surprisingly, I had excellent pupil retention. But I attribute that to my jokes more so than my stylus of horror.

[mistermasan]

the korean girl students always used to steal my pens. it was almost like a fetish for some of them...they just had to have new and/or different pens. i took to just carrying one clipped to my shirt collar that they couldn't get their mitts on.

[Arthur Dent]

[.38 Special]

[andrewchon]

Somewhere in the cosmos, he said, along with all the planets inhabited by Humanoids, reptiloids, fishoids, walking treeoids, and super-intelligent shades of the colour blue, there was also a planet entirely given over to biro life-forms. And it was to this planet that unattended biros would make their way. Slipping quietly through wormholes in space to a world where they knew they could enjoy a uniquely biroid lifestyle. Responding to highly biroid-orientated stimuli, in fact, leading the Biro equivalent of the good life.
-Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Galaxy

We've found that planet of biroids and it's you Kiwi Tart!

[Steelrails]

A good pen is like a can of WD-40.

[young_clinton]